And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon : and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
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Gill's Exposition
And seeing a fig tree afar off,.... By the wayside, at some distance from him:
having leaves; very large and spreading, which made a great show, as if there might be fruit on it:
he came; unto it;…
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Adam Clarke
For the time of figs was not yet - Rather, For it was not the season of gathering figs yet. This I am fully persuaded is the true sense of this passage, ου γαρ ην καιρος συκων. For a proof that καιρος…
Here is, I. Christ's cursing the fruitless fig-tree. He had a convenient resting-place at Bethany, and therefore thither he went at resting-time; but his work lay at Jerusalem, and thither therefore…
Cambridge Bible
seeing a fig tree The very name Bethany means "the place for dates," while Bethphage is "the place for the green or winter fig," a variety which remains on the trees through the winter, having ripened…